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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 228 / Monday, November 28, 2011 / Notices 72929 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Final Effect of Designation of a Class 

of Employees for Addition to the 

Special Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HHS gives notice concerning 

the final effect of the HHS decision to 

designate a class of employees from the 

Ames Laboratory at Iowa State 

University, as an addition to the Special 

Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy 

Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000. On 

October 18, 2011, as provided for under 

42 U.S.C. 7384q(b), the Secretary of 

HHS designated the following class of 

employees as an addition to the SEC: 

All Department of Energy (DOE) 

employees, its predecessor agencies, and its 

contractors and subcontractors who worked 

in any area of the Ames Laboratory at Iowa 

State University during the period from 

August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1970, 

for a number of work days aggregating at least 

250 work days, occurring either solely under 

this employment or in combination with 

work days within the parameters established 

for one or more classes of employees 

included in the Special Exposure Cohort. 

This designation became effective on 

November 17, 2011, as provided for 

under 42 U.S.C. 7384l(14)(C). Hence, 

beginning on November 17, 2011, 

members of this class of employees, 

defined as reported in this notice, 

became members of the Special 

Exposure Cohort. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division 

of Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone (877) 

222–7570. Information requests can also 

be submitted by email to 

DCAS@CDC.GOV. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2011–30587 Filed 11–25–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–19–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Decision To Evaluate a Petition To 

Designate a Class of Employees From 

Titanium Alloys Manufacturing in 

Niagara Falls, NY, To Be Included in 

the Special Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HHS gives notice as required 

by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to 

evaluate a petition to designate a class 

of employees from Titanium Alloys 

Manufacturing in Niagara Falls, New 

York, to be included in the Special 

Exposure Cohort under the Energy 

Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000. The 

initial proposed definition for the class 

being evaluated, subject to revision as 

warranted by the evaluation, is as 

follows: 

Facility: Titanium Alloys 

Manufacturing. 

Location: Niagara Falls, New York. 

Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All 

employees who worked in any area or 

building. 

Period of Employment: January 1, 

1950 through December 31, 1956. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division 

of Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone (877) 

222–7570. Information requests can also 

be submitted by email to 

DCAS@CDC.GOV. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2011–30577 Filed 11–25–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 


and Quality, HHS. 


ACTION: Notice. 


SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

intention of the Agency for Healthcare 

Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approve the proposed 

information collection project: ‘‘Medical 

Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture 

Comparative Database.’’ In accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 

U.S.C. 3501–3521, AHRQ invites the 

public to comment on this proposed 

information collection. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by January 27, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to: Doris Lefkowitz, 

Reports Clearance Officer, AHRQ, by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

Copies of the proposed collection 

plans, data collection instruments, and 

specific details on the estimated burden 

can be obtained from the AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris Lefkowitz, AHRQ Reports 

Clearance Officer, (301) 427–1477, or by 

email at doris.lefkowitz@AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Project 

Medical Office Survey on Patient 

Safety Culture Comparative Database. 

The Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ) requests that the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approve, under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, AHRQ’s 

collection of information for the AHRQ 

Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety 

Culture (Medical Office SOPS) 

Comparative Database. The Medical 

Office SOPS Comparative Database 

consists of data from the AHRQ Medical 

Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture. 

Medical offices in the U.S. are asked to 

voluntarily submit data from the survey 

to AHRQ, through its contractor, Westat. 

The Medical Office SOPS Database is 

modeled after the Hospital SOPS 

Database [OMB NO. 0935–0162; 

approved 05/04/2010] that was 

originally developed by AHRQ in 2006 

in response to requests from hospitals 

interested in knowing how their patient 

safety culture survey results compare to 

those of other hospitals. 

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine 

called for health care organizations to 

develop a ‘‘culture of safety’’ such that 

their workforce and processes focus on 

improving the reliability and safety of 

care for patients (IOM, 1999; To Err is 

Human: Building a Safer Health 

System). To respond to the need for 

tools to assess patient safety culture in 

outpatient ambulatory health care, 

AHRQ developed and pilot tested the 

Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety 

Culture with OMB approval (OMB 

NO.0935–0131; Approved July 5, 2007).